Senior Quality Engineer
| Posting date: | 19 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £70,929 to £78,810 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 July 2025 |
| Location: | Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH3 9BN |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Lloyds Banking Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 137699_1750329899 |
Summary
JOB TITLE: Senior Quality Engineer
SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810
LOCATION: Edinburgh
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh office location
About this opportunity
Within Pensions & Investments we are focused on the end-to-end journey for our customers from building their wealth to spending it in retirement. We are building a truly differentiated digital proposition, transforming the way people plan, protect and save to enable everyone to secure their financial future.
Workplace Digital is an innovation-focused Lab dedicated to delivering exceptional digital experiences that support the Workplace Pensions ecosystem. Our mission is to empower Employers in the effective administration of pensions-covering Assessment, Contribution, Communication, and Insight-while also enhancing the experience for Customers, Advisers, and Colleagues. We design and deliver seamless, portable digital journeys accessible across multiple channels, including Mobile App, Web, Adviser Portal, and Colleague platforms.
As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will:
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Champion quality throughout the software delivery lifecycle by embedding best practices from design through to deployment.
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Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to build, support, and continuously improve our software solutions.
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Lead the development and execution of a robust test automation strategy, covering both functional and non-functional testing.
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Balance hands-on automation work with coaching responsibilities, helping to elevate quality engineering standards across the team.
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Contribute to the broader engineering transformation strategy by ensuring adherence to modern quality and engineering principles.
This role is ideal for someone passionate about quality, eager to influence engineering culture, and ready to take on new challenges in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment.
Here's how you'll make a difference:
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Design and build robust, maintainable, and modular automation suites
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Develop and extend frameworks, templates, and guidelines for developing test scripts
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Understand and write the test data requirements, collaborating closely with the external teams across the Value Stream and beyond
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Act as mentor to other engineers, encouraging our culture of collaboration and openness to thrive
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Write detailed Test Scopes, Test Plans and End of Test Reports, evidencing the quality of the software we ship
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Complete some exploratory testing alongside automated testing
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Help decide what and how to monitor & alert on for new functionality
Why Lloyds Banking Group
We're on an exciting transformation journey and there could not be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.
What you'll need:
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You understand and promote test engineering best practices (e.g., mocking & stubbing, AAA, Page Object Model).
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You focus on automation and integrating it into CI/CD pipelines.
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A strong passion for leading quality engineering and automation initiatives.
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Extensive experience in modern quality engineering roles, with a solid understanding of the full software development lifecycle.
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Proven experience working in collaborative Agile teams.
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Proficiency in one or more programming languages-JavaScript is especially valued.
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Experience building test frameworks in a DevOps environment.
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A solid grasp of both functional and non-functional testing approaches.
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Familiarity with tools such as Cypress, Playwright, Bruno, SauceLabs, Applitools, Performance Center, SonarQube, Burp Suite, aXe, Parasoft, Jira/Xray, OWASP ZAP, or Dynatrace are a plus-but not required.
About working for us
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
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A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
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An annual performance-related bonus
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Share schemes including free shares
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Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
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30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
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A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey!
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme